Panasonic introduced a new addition to its award-winning TZ-family of digital cameras, the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-TZ50 – complete with Wi-Fi capabilities, standard 802.11b/g wireless LAN connectivity and access to T-Mobile HotSpot service, users can upload digital photos taken with the TZ50 directly to Picasa Web Albums, a free online photo-sharing service from Google.
The 9.1 megapixel TZ50 is packed with a 28mm wide-angle lens, 10x optical zoom and the ability to record HD video, making it the ideal digital camera for active users.

* NEW 2/3" MYSTERIUM X SENSOR
* 1-120 FPS (180FPS BURST)
* UP TO 100 MB/SEC REDCODE RAW AND RGB RECORDING TO DUAL COMPACT FLASH
* 4.8" LCD
* 8X T2.8 RED ZOOM LENS
* FULL AUTO OR FULL MANUAL SHOOTING MODES
* HDMI and HD-SDI
* FIREWIRE 800 and USB2
* STILL MODE
* COMPATIBLE WITH MANY RED ONE ACCESSORIES
* WI-FI CONTROL

Hitachi GST has announced an enterprise version of its 1TB consumer Deskstar drive, which could herald a new round of competition in the high-end hard drive market.

Engineers who develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like to make their tiny machines out of silicon because it is cheap, plentiful and can be worked on with the tools already developed for making microelectronic circuits. There is just one problem: Silicon breaks too easily.

















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Carbon fiber rods supporting this tiny mirror can be made to bend up to 90 degrees millions of times without showing fatigue. The technology could be used to create a video projector on a chip.

For decades, researchers have been trying to make video displays using tiny mirrors mounted on silicon oscillators. But silicon won't oscillate fast enough and bend far enough.

"You need something incredibly stiff to oscillate at a resonant frequency of 60,000 times a second (the line-scanning rate of most video displays), but it also needs to bend a lot for adequate image size," explained Shahyaan Desai, a Cornell graduate student who has been working for more than three years to create a practical MEMS video display device.

Revolutionary Advance in Media Center Technology to be Showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

Video Without Boundaries, Inc. announced it has further extended the capabilities of its award-winning MediaREADY™ Digital Media Center product line to include support for an array of new applications and services.

To be demonstrated live at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the Linux-based line of products will be a series of popular online services and applications including iTunes, Yahoo Music, Google Video, AOL Optimized 9.0, voice calling as well as transfer of video and audio to the Apple iPod.

Venture-backed Start-up Sets New Standard for the High Definition Experience with Low Power, Cost-effective Platform

Ambarella Inc., an emerging leader in semiconductors for consumer digital media devices, today announced the first commercial low power HD H.264/AVC system-on-chip (SoC) that enables the development of true hybrid cameras with HD video and high-resolution still pictures at the highest image quality.

Ambarella’s breakthrough A1 digital camera platform combines an HD H.264/AVC codec, video processor, still image processor, audio compression and all other critical system functions on one chip.

The Ambarella SoC has an extremely low operating power of less than one watt and a price-point that makes the high-definition experience a reality for mainstream consumers.

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BRG Precision Products, Derby, Kansas, annouced the release of the revolutionary BrightClock™ Power over Ethernet (PoE) digital clock product line.

PolyIC introduces the first fully functioning polymer based RFID Tag with a frequency of 13.56 MHz - leadoff roll-to-roll printed products are planned for the next year Since the foundation of the PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG two years ago as a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co. KG, the company achieved immense technological progress: recently, the first organic RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Tags were demonstrated at the 13.56 MHz standard.

Wolfgang Mildner, managing director of PolyIC, draws a positive balance: "With this early demonstration of a future product made of organic electronics we showed that the performance of the available materials is sufficient to manufacture first standardized products. Some challenges were coped with, but some are still on the road ahead.

The world of printed electronics definitely approaches."

Preview Alto, the industry's first two-channel MPEG-4 Encoder, at IBC 2005

EGT, Inc., delivering the world's best digital video experience, announced ALTO, the company's flagship H.264 / MPEG-4 video processing platform.

EGT will demonstrate ALTO's technology and capabilities at the upcoming IBC2005 in Amsterdam.

Designed to capitalize on EGT's latest algorithm innovations, ALTO allows operators to provide superior quality digital video at the lowest bit rates, thus improving bandwidth utilization by 50% and accelerating Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) and other advanced applications.

Sharp Corporation and Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. have developed a new LCD, which can simultaneously display different information and image content in right and left views in a single unit by directionally controlling the viewing angle of the LCD. This feature makes it possible to provide information and content tailored to specific users depending on the angle at which they view the screen.

Volume production of the LCD will begin in July 2005, marking the introduction of the world’s first practical application of this technology.